Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Raphaël Sévère, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Lars Vogt, Quatuor Modigliani – Mozart: Clarinet Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Raphaël Sévère, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Lars Vogt, Quatuor Modigliani – Mozart: Clarinet Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:34 minutes | 1020 MB | Genre: Classical
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Raphaël Sévère releases a new album dedicated to Mozart’s concerto and quintet, in collaboration with the Modigliani Quartet and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Lars Vogt.

“In the terrible period when we were all deprived of culture, Mozart’s music has really been life-saving for me, it has truly filled my life. To make up for these months of solitary confinement, I have worked on several recording and composition projects. But for want of partners, audiences, encounters, I was overwhelmed with a great feeling of emptiness. Music only makes sense if it is shared.”

The present album features a return to the artist’s life. A rebirth. With Mozart.
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Anne Queffélec, Orchestre de chambre de Paris & Lio Kuokman – Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20, K. 466 & No. 27, K. 595 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Anne Queffélec, Orchestre de chambre de Paris & Lio Kuokman – Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20, K. 466 & No. 27, K. 595 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:19 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

“‘When the world stoops around us, when the structures of a civilization are shattered, it is a good thing to revert to what in history does not stoop but, on the contrary, summons up courage, gathers the parted ones, makes peace without hurting.’ Thus speaks Camus on February 2nd, 1956, paying tribute to Mozart on the bicentennial of his birth. ‘When one has really listened to this song, one has traveled all over the world and had a look at all the beings.’ In 2023 more than ever, this song is vital, ‘Such as into Himself at last eternity’ will not change him.” – Anne Queffélec

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Thomas Zehetmair & Orchestre de chambre de Paris – Robert Schumann (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Founded in 1978, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris quickly established its reputation as one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras. In 2012, Thomas Zehetmair was appointed the orchestra’s principal conductor and artistic advisor and on this recording, made at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in February 2014, does double duty as both soloist and conductor. Zehetmair’s insightful approach to Robert Schumann has already been demonstrated on ECM New Series with the Zehtmair Quartet, whose recording of the Schumann string quartets won prizes including the Gramophone Award as Album of the Year in 2003. Here the Orchestre de chamber de Paris plays the Symphony no. 1 “Spring” (1841) and the Phantasie for Violin and Orchestra and the Violin Concerto (both 1853). The composition of the first symphony drew inspiration from Schubert’s 9th Symphony and from the poetry of Adolf Böttger. The Phantasie and the Violin Concerto had quite different fates. The Phantasie was premiered to huge acclaim after initial performances. The Violin Concerto had to wait more than 80 years for its premiere, and too often since then players have made adjustments to the violin part. Thomas Zehetmair reveals how urgent and convincing the impact of Schuman’s original version can be when the performers enter into its spirit.

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Lars Vogt & Orchestre de Chambre de Paris – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 24 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The early death of award-winning pianist and conductor Lars Vogt on September 5, 2022 shocked profoundly the international music world. Some 16 months earlier, already aware of his diagnosis and in the middle of his treatment sessions, the artist had an urgent desire to record a Mozart piano concerto album together with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. He believed that performing these fantastic works that he so much admired would also be the best medicine for his condition. For this Mozart album Lars Vogt coupled two concertos: the early, exuberant Piano Concerto No. 9, ‘Jeunehomme’, written by Mozart in his early 20s, together with the melancholic and nostalgic Piano Concerto No. 24, which is considered by many as Mozart’s greatest piano concerto – a perfect closure to Lars Vogt’s final concerto album.

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Lars Vogt, Orchestre de chambre de Paris – Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Lars Vogt, Orchestre de chambre de Paris - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

This new release is pianist-conductor Lars Vogt’s debut album together with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Lars Vogt started his tenure as the new Music Director of the orchestra on 1 July 2020. This album release continues Lars Vogt’s discography of recordings of cornerstone works within the classic piano concerto literature conducting from the keyboard. Previous album releases include the complete piano concertos of Beethoven and Brahms with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In 2021, Lars Vogt won the OPUS Klassik award for the best solo piano album release of year from his recent Janácek solo album release (ODE 1382-2). In January 2022, the same album also won an ICMA Award.
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Accentus, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Laurence Equilbey – David: Le Désert (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Il est grand temps que le chef-d’œuvre de Félicien David intègre enfin le répertoire des orchestres français ; certes, l’ouvrage est assez inclassable puisque ni symphonie, ni oratorio, ni mélodame, il emprunte un peu à tous les genres. David considérait Le Désert comme une « ode-symphonie », néologisme qui lui permettait de faire un peu ce qu’il voulait. L’album propose deux versions : l’une avec le narrateur, ce qui en fait un mélodrame, l’autre sans narrateur, ce qui en fait une sorte de symphonie lyrique. Composé en 1844, Le Désert ne manque pas de montrer certains points communs musicaux avec Harold en Italie (1834) mais aussi avec L’Enfance du Christ écrit bien plus tard, en 1854 : pollinisation croisée ? David, qui a passé de longues années en Algérie et en Afrique vers 1832-33, est revenu avec le cerveau rempli à raz bord de tournures orientalisantes, et Le Désert lancera cette nouvelle mode musicale exotique, et nombre de ses œuvres auront pour sujet toutes sortes de contrées lointaines -–dont la musique endémique n’était pas assez connue pour que le public pût réellement en goûter l’authenticité ou pas. Mais chaque morceau caractéristique – le chant du muezzin, la fantaisie arabe, la marche de la caravane, l’hymne à la nuit… – est un petit bijou de caractère. Dès sa création, Le Désert plaça David au firmament des compositeurs de son temps ; et s’il n’est pas un génie du niveau d’un Berlioz (la postérité s’est d’ailleurs chargée de placer chacun sur l’échelle), il mérite mille fois d’être enfin remis à la place d’honneur qui lui est due.

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Orchestre de chambre de Paris & Hervé Niquet – Massenet: Songs with Orchestra (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Massenet was not only the composer of Manon and Werther. In the shadow of his stage works slumber many mélodies decked out in subtle and delicate orchestrations, which we are delighted to revive here. These previously unrecorded works have been entrusted to a team of first-rate artists, most of them fervent champions of French poetry and its musical settings.

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Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet, Flemish Radio Choir – Halévy: La Reine de Chypre (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Berlioz wrote of Halévy’s La Reine de Chypre (1841): ‘Its success will at least equal that of La Juive. And Wagner added: ‘It is in La Reine de Chypre that Halévy’snew style hasappeared with themost brilliance and success.’ So several voices – and those by no means insignificant – have declared thiswork,written six years after LaJuive, to be its composer’s masterpiece. Premiered on 22 December 1841, Halévy’s opera offered the limelight to Rosine Stoltz in the title role: she was the only woman in the cast, for it had been found preferable to isolate her, following her incessant disputes with the other female singers in the company. Alongside her, the tenor Gilbert Duprez shone in the role of Gérard. The story takes the spectator on a voyage from the palaces of Venice to those of Cyprus. But despite an initial succe ss confirmed by seve ral translations and adaptations that appeared shortly after the first run (notably Lachner’s Caterina Cornaro in 1841 and Donizetti’s in 1843), the work gradually vanished from European opera houses.

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